Well this rates as a first class sucky running day.
I was planning on meeting someone in Salem who hasn't met there before, so when I arrived I wasn't surprised she wasn't there yet. I took my cell phone on a warm up jog as I waited for her. I promised I would bring my cell in case she got lost on the way. 20 minutes later she still wasn't there and my hands were freezing (from holding the cell phone, my hands always get cold when I have to hold something). I am sure she had a perfectly reasonable excuse for not showing, but I haven't been stood up in a while so I was caught unprepared. So I got in 2.12 miles slow (8:59 ave) and I decide that since my hands were cold, I didn't have my mace or my mp3, that I would take my new (used) treadmill on its first spin.
I get home and have to maneuver the beastly thing (a used monster sized Star Trac bought from the Ogden Gold's Gym) to plug it in. It didn't work when I press start. Plug it in in another location, and it still won't start. Well, then I looked and found an on/off switch by where the plug goes out of the machine.
I turn it on and I am in business, trading off between 7:47 and 8 min pace (depending on the song on the radio, of course) at 2 % (I think it is percent) grade. about 3/4 a mile into it I remember that treadmills are incredibly boring, and in the fifth mile on the treadmill my son wakes up, as he doesn't understand the glorious opportunity daylight savings gives us of sleeping in, and my morning run is aborted.
GRRRR.
Asics.
Evening -
I walked my kids to the park by our house and ran in circles on an asphalt path that borders the park while my kids played. In my first mile they each ran with me for a part of the time. My 3.5 year old ran .2 miles with me at 10 min pace. So my first mile split was around 10 min, and the next two were in the low 8's while my kids amused themselves by getting tangled in the soccor goal mesh. I shouldn't have let them play with it, but they were reluctant to go to the park at all, so I just felt lucky that they would stay entertained for 27 minutes. 3.08 at 8:50 ave. | 